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Wednesday May 23, 2012
Brad Schrade
Reporter | Investigations
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Brad Schrade is an investigative reporter.
Recent content from Brad Schrade
Overcrowded day cares in state are 'a recipe for disaster'
When care providers take too many children, dangers multiply. Several sites of child-care deaths had been cited for capacity violations.
Updated: May 22, 2012, - 10:34 AM
Parents can't assume providers carry insurance
Parents may assume their child-care providers carry liability insurance in case of an accident, but Minnesota law doesn't require it and regulators don't always track which providers have it.
Updated: May 19, 2012, - 05:50 PM
Child-care group backs stricter baby sleep rules
A measure would require a doctor's OK before child-care workers could put a baby to sleep on its stomach.
Updated: May 10, 2012, - 09:45 PM
Day-care bill would provide babies new safeguards in Minnesota
Alarmed by a rise in deaths among children in day care, a Faribault lawmaker has proposed that Minnesota hold child-care providers to a tougher standard of safe sleep practices.
Updated: May 10, 2012, - 11:44 AM
Minnesota lags behind other states in safety training
Minnesota has some of the leanest training requirements in the nation with respect to preventing SIDS and limiting other infant hazards at licensed family child care.
Updated: May 05, 2012, - 11:22 PM
'Immediate' closing of Brooklyn Center day care took 5 years
State officials vow to take swifter action against centers that consistently disregard safety rules.
Updated: May 05, 2012, - 09:42 AM
Minnesota Legislature approves tougher elder-abuse bill
The measure passed by the Legislature calls for prison terms of up to 10 years.
Updated: April 06, 2012, - 02:21 PM
Deaths in Minn. day cares rising, mostly in home-based settings
Fatalities are concentrated in home-based providers. Officials are trying to find out why.
Updated: March 05, 2012, - 09:45 AM
Pawn chain seeks a change in lending laws
Pawn America asks Legislature to loosen rules for a new kind of loans.
Updated: February 23, 2012, - 08:16 AM
Lobbying violations vex understaffed Minnesota regulator
Office too small to keep tabs on influence peddlers, director says.
Updated: February 14, 2012, - 11:05 PM
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